GREEK LIFE at CSULB

Adventures of Greek Life at CSULB

Hey everyone. Read about what it's like to be a member of a fraternity or sorority on the California State University, Long Beach campus. Greek life is not just about the events and parties that are held, like the stuff you see on TV, but focuses more on life in general when it comes to everyday values, friendships, community service, and leadership in the brotherhood and sisterhood. This blog will target all the CSULB students who have ever thought about joining a Greek chapter on campus. Students will hopefully come to see that being involved in Greek organization on campus will be a life changing experience. At CSULB there are 30 different Greek organizations and each of these offer individual focuses on student life. Having brothers and sisters to share wonderful college experiences with will help to make your college years so much more memorable.

Did you know........
Famous athletes, entertainers, and politicians that were ALL GREEK!


Photograph taken by Michael Yee

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Greek Week is back!!!

The 10th Annual Greek Week is going to be held this week from Sunday April 20th to Saturday April 26th. "The purpose of Greek week is to bring the chapters together to mingle and get to know each other," said Caitlin Roberts, the Coordinator of Greek Life. The first annual Greek week began in October of 1998 and has been a huge success and allows students to interact with each other and make new friends. While also having fun and showing pride being a Greek, the Greek Week events are an opportunity to raise money and donate to Camp Heartland, which is a camp for children with HIV, and to raise money for the Long Beach Rescue Mission.

If your interested in watching any of these events, please read the following:

Sunday April 20th, on the friendship walk, the participating Greek chapters will gather to compete in Gauntlet relay races.


Monday April 21st, the Greek chapters will gather to compete in building castles out of cans. Each fraternity and sorority will be paired up and compete against one another to see who makes the best castles out of canned foods. This will beheld at the Beach Circle near the CBS building on the CSULB campus.


Tuesday April 22nd, at the Gold Mine Gym, the dizzy bat, trivia, and tug of war games will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Greeks students will be paired up with other fraternities and sororities to compete in these sporting events.


Wednesday April 23rd, an HIV Positive Fraternity Alumni named Ben Goldman, will speak to Greek students at the Long Beach Polytechnic High School. This will be held at 7 p.m.


Thursday April 24th, the Greek sing and dancing event will be held at the Long beach Polytechnic High School as well. The Greek sing and dancing is an event where the Greek chapters are paired up together to perform a five-minute skit or dance routine.


Friday April 25th, will be a day of academics for the Greek students and there will be no events this day.


Saturday April 26th, will be the last day of Greek week. The Greek chapters will come together during the Kaleidoscope event that will be held form 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. here at CSULB.


Greek week is a very important part of being involved with Greek Life on campus and students who participate can teach each other about their values they represent in their chapter.

Photograph taken by Michael Yee.

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